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Audio: Ideas Around Hacking / How Does Openness Work?

27-03-2010 20:38

Attached are recordings of two discussions, Ideas Around Hacking and How Does Openness Work? which were held at Access Space

http://www.access-space.org/ in Sheffield on 27th March 2010.

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Gaza Protestors Sentencing Under Scrutiny.

25-03-2010 13:12

A number of the Gaza protestors have achieved victory in recent cases.

The first appeal was heard today and the Appeal Judges took 15 minutes to rule that the defendant should not be serving a custodial sentence! The defendant is now back at home with family.

One defendant who appeared in court yesterday was found not guilty on the grounds that the prosecution withdrew their evidence as they believed it would not help result in a conviction!

The first two cases of defendants pleading not guilty were heard last week and resulted in a not guilty verdict.

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Mobile Fur Demo Hits London

24-03-2010 23:30

Activists in London today held a mobile demo against shops involved in the fur trade. In this day and age, it is totally unnecessary and indefensible to support this archaic trade in animal skins.

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Activists disrupt 'policing the borders' conference

24-03-2010 21:30

A high-profile conference about 'policing' the UK borders on Tuesday was disrupted by campaigners protesting against a 'fortress Europe'. Activists from No Borders London [1] stormed the Cavendish conference centre in central London with banners, leaflets and cameras. They then started to shout 'No borders, no nations, stop deportations' until the 20 or so attendees left and the event was cancelled.

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Support for Black Wood Solidarity Camp needed - ancient woodland being felled

24-03-2010 17:20

It’s day three of the occupation of Black Wood, a designated wildlife site and ancient woodland, as campaigners attempt to stop UK Coal from open cast mining 720,000 tonnes of coal from their Blair House site in Fife. The woodland was occupied last Sunday as 25 activists blocked and barricaded the access road using a scaffolding tripod, and took to the trees putting up nets, platforms and treehouses.

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Budget Day Civil Service Strike

24-03-2010 13:46

Up to a quarter of a million civil and public servants from across the UK are taking part in a one day strike on budget day today, in a dispute over cuts to redundancy pay.

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Sanctuary for Ali Hili - Action alert: Iraqi LGBT need your help

24-03-2010 10:24

The UK government through its Border Agency has decided not to give priority to the asylum application of Iraqi, Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) leader Ali Hili, in exile in London. The application has been outstanding for nearly three years and while it is outstanding, Ali cannot travel.

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Brief Report from Bolton

22-03-2010 21:42

A report pulled together from various Nottingham UAF sources. (This is not intended to be complete or authoritative, hopefully others with better stories will post too)

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Unite Strikers vs. BA Bosses – Pix-&-Vidz – Sat 20 Mar 10

22-03-2010 18:00

Dateline: Heathrow Airport, London, UK, 06:15-12:15, Sat 20 Mar 10 – In the first major UK industrial dispute of 2010, the British Airways bosses, led by Willie "The Slasher" Walsh, take on the might of Unite the Union, and specifically the cabin crew's section called BASSA: the British Airlines Stewards and Stewardesses Association. The actions of Walsh & Co. may display nothing but contempt for the folk they regard as nothing more than trolly dollies, but the high spirits of the women, men and children on the pickets and at the Strike Support Rally showed they can give as good as they get, verbally and visually.

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London March Against Education Cuts

22-03-2010 11:54

A couple of thousand teachers and students marched through London on Saturday 20/03/2010 calling for a reversal of planned education cuts which abandon a generation of students and will damage economic recovery. The march ended with a rally opposite Downing Street where a letter from the UCU (University and College Union) was delivered to the Prime Minister. Photos Copyright (C) 2010, Peter Marshall, all rights reserved.

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BA Cabin Crew at Heathrow

22-03-2010 09:51

British Airways (BA) cabin crew at Heathrow on Saturday morning, 20/03/2010, the first day of their strike. Several hundred cabin crew came to listen to speakers, including Len McCluskey of Unite, and show their determination to fight management plans to downgrade their conditions and make BA into a cut-price airline. Others kept up pickets at gates around the airport. Photos Copyright (C) 2010, Peter Marshall, all rights reserved.

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Site of New UK Coal Open Cast Mine Occupied in Fife

22-03-2010 09:21

Last night twenty five activists occupied the site of the Blair House Open Cast Coal Site in solidarity with near-by communities and in direct intervention of the environmental destruction that it will cause. Contractors have been felling trees on the site over the past week, and activists have moved in to stop this work and put an end to UK Coal's plans for mining the Black Wood Wildlife site.

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Second attempt to remove Mireille Mbimbo

22-03-2010 06:03

Mireille Mbimbo a national of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and a resident of Bradford, is currently being held at Yarls Wood IRC and due to be forcibly removed from the UK on Thursday 25th March @ 19.00 on Kenya Airways flight KQ101, from London Heathrow to Nairobi for onward transit on flight KQ554 to Kinshasa.

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Second attempt to remove Patrick Masengo

22-03-2010 06:02

Patrick Masengo, a national of DR Congo and resident of Rotherham, currently detained in Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre, is due to be forcibly removed from the UK on Wednesday 24th March @ 19.00 hrs on Kenyan Airways Flight KQ101 to Nairobi and onwards to DR Congo.

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Yarl's Wood Migrant Solidarity Noise Demo

20-03-2010 19:05

On Sunday March 14th around 40 people gathered at Yarl's Wood immigration detention centre to show solidarity with the hunger strikers. Drummers and trumpeters turned out in force to let the women inside know of the wide support for their struggle. The demonstrators also made clear their view that detention of migrants is wrong, and the imprisonment of women and children in particular highlights the perversity of border enforcement.

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Listen to an exclusive interview with Ratibor Trivunac of the Belgrade 6

20-03-2010 13:36

Listen to an exclusive interview with Ratibor Trivunac of the Belgrade 6...

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International Support For Sacked UBS Cleaner

20-03-2010 00:29

Around a hundred protesters came to the United Bank of Switzerland (UBS) in London on Friday evening, to call for the re-instatement of Alberto Durango, sacked in February for his union activities when he approached the contract company Lancaster over their cuts in hours for workers at UBS. London 19/03/2010
Pictures copyright (C) 2010 Peter Marshall, all rights reserved

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Failure to protect bluefin tuna has huge consequences

19-03-2010 10:24

It is a huge disappointment. The United Nations wildlife conference in Qatar this week, where delegates from 175 countries gathered to make decisions on the protection of recently endangered species, has pulled grey clouds over the world of conservation. The CITES meeting failed to add the threatened Atlantic bluefin tuna to the Appendix I listing of the CITES legislation, which would have resulted in a ban on the international trade of the fish.

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The Huntington Lane Fossil Fools weekend gathering

18-03-2010 21:37

West Midlands Climate Action presents … The Huntington Lane Fossil Fools weekend convergence

A large number of trees have been felled at the proposed open cast coal mining site at Huntington Lane near Telford in Shropshire. A small camp has now been established on the Surface Mine Site (SMS)

http://bit.ly/94Ogz0 and people are urgently needed. As part of Fossil Fools day West Midlands Climate Action are putting on a weekend gathering from the 1st-4th April

http://bit.ly/cvrV2X

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Smash Edo picket Barclays

18-03-2010 12:41

A crowd of protesters stood outside Barclays gates in its main Brighton stronghold yesterday with banners, handing leaflets out and talking to passers by about the corporate bank's associations with arms manufacturers EDO MBM/ITT.